American Experience
Trailer | Fly with Me
Show title: American Experience
Video title: Trailer | Fly with Me
Video duration: 2m 2sVideo description: Fly With Me tells the story of the pioneering women who became flight attendants at a time when single women were unable to order a drink, eat alone in a restaurant, own a credit card or get a prescription for birth control. The job offered unheard-of opportunities for travel and independence. These women were on the frontlines of the battle to assert gender equality and transform the workplace.
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Trailer | Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History
1m 15s
Monopoly is America’s favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and our free market society. But behind the myth of the game’s creation is an untold tale of theft, obsession and corporate double-dealing.
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The Woman Behind Monopoly
4m 44s
Monopoly might be America's favorite board game, but it has a surprising secret. The true inventor may be a woman you've never heard of: Lizzie Magie. In this episode of "What the History?!" we present the inside scoop of Monopoly's origins.
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Who's Who
44s
The creator. The challenger. The imposter. The monopolist. Meet the characters in "Ruthless: Monopoly’s Secret History."
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Chapter 1 | Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History
10m 43s
Ruthless: Monopoly’s Secret History presents the fascinating true story behind America’s favorite game.
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Zora Neale Hurston, In Her Own Words
1m 44s
In 1936, the anthropologist and noted Harlem Renaissance figure Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Jamaica to learn the customs and traditions of its free Black population. Her experience there highlights one of the many ways she was ahead of her time.
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The Films of Zora Neale Hurston
2m 58s
Filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain talks about Zora Neale Hurston and her interest in capturing the rural Black folk in her writings and ethnographic work. In multiple trips to the south, Hurston shot 16mm film of rural Black people, culture and customs amassing 85 minutes of footage that she shot and/or directed.
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Chapter 1 | Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
10m 15s
Meet the influential author and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Also a trained anthropologist, Hurston collected folklore throughout the South and Caribbean — reclaiming, honoring and celebrating Black life on its own terms.
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Teaser | Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming A Space
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Meet the influential author and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Also a trained anthropologist, Hurston collected folklore throughout the South and Caribbean — reclaiming, honoring and celebrating Black life on its own terms.
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The Third Degree
4m 16s
Some etymologists trace the phrase 'The Third Degree' back to Freemasonry, but by the early 20th century, the term had become firmly associated with something entirely different: harsh police interrogation, or more accurately, torture.
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Chapter 1 | The Lie Detector
10m 24s
Discover the story of the polygraph, the controversial device that transformed modern police work, seized headlines and was extolled as an infallible crime-fighting tool. A tale of good intentions, twisted morals and unintended consequences.
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Trailer |The Lie Detector
1m 35s
Discover the story of the polygraph, the controversial device that transformed modern police work, seized headlines and was extolled as an infallible crime-fighting tool. A tale of good intentions, twisted morals and unintended consequences.
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Ways A Rescue Mission Can Go Wrong
3m 40s
On April 24, 1980, after 172 days of captivity, a U.S. Armed Forces operation attempted to rescue the hostages. Colonel James Q. Roberts recalls the details of the failed Iran Hostage rescue mission.
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Operation Ajax
6m 8s
The secret plan by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) to overthrow the then-democratically-elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh.
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Trailer | Taken Hostage
3m 14s
Revisit the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, when 52 Americans were held hostage in Tehran, through stories of those whose ordeal riveted the world.
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Jimmy Carter
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President Jimmy Carter confronted one of the most significant challenges of his presidency during the Iran hostage crisis.
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